What is a snob?, asks the writer Alain De Botton. “A snob is someone who uses a small part of you to come to a global conclusion about who you are." Who is the opposite of a snob? “ Your mother.”
To get a taste of his views, here's Alain De Botton’s short lecture on a gentler philosophy of success from the TED.COM 2009 Conference:
It may be short but it makes us remember to put conscious effort to live our days on our own terms and take to heart that sentence, Memento Mori: Remember you are mortal.
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- Cosmicomics--Italo Calvino (fin.)
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- The Last Lecture -- Randy Pausch (fin.)
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- The House On Mango Street --Sandra Cisneros (fin.)
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- I am a Jane of all trades, but at the moment, master of none. I work as an engineer but I spend almost the same amount of time planning my way into building a business empire. On my free time, I travel or cook/bake or read or shop or cut out pictures of designs of homes and products I like.
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